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Full name | Dimuth Akalanka Peiris | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Sri Lanka | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Colombo, Sri Lanka | 11 January 2000|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 175 cm (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 76 kg (168 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Dimuth Akalanka Peiris also known as Dimuth Peiris (born 11 January 2000) is a Sri Lankan male swimmer and a national record holder in swimming. [1] He represented Sri Lanka at the 2018 Commonwealth Games and competed in swimming competitions. [2] In August 2018, he became the first ever Sri Lankan student to sit for a Sri Lankan GCE A/L examinations outside Sri Lanka as he was granted special permission to write A/L exams in Jakarta, Indonesia just prior to his preparations for the 2018 Asian Games. [3] [4] He represented Sri Lanka at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in October 2018 which was held in Argentina. [5] He also went onto represent Sri Lanka at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships as the only male swimmer. [6]
Akalanka Peiris has set national swimming records in 50m backstroke, 100m backstroke and 4 × 100 m freestyle relay events. In 2017, he set the new Sri Lankan national record in men's 100m backstroke event. [7]
later claimed two more national records in both 50m backstroke [8] and 4 × 100 m freestyle relay events during the 2018 Commonwealth Games. [9]
Akalanka Peiris also qualified to represent Sri Lanka at the 2018 Asian Games when he was on the verge of his A/L examinations. However he was approved by the Ministry of Education of Sri Lanka to take three of his A/L papers to Jakarta and was allowed to sit for the exams in the Sri Lanka embassy in Jakarta. [10] This instance also made him the only Sri Lankan to sit for the A/L examinations in a foreign country. [11] Due to his examinations, he missed out to take part in the opening ceremony of the 2018 Asian Games. [12]
Peiris was the only Sri Lankan swimmer to qualify to represent Sri Lanka at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics. [13] akalanka has recently started swimming for Laverton Wyndham aquatics